Collection Items
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Majmuʻah, or, Collection]. A scholar's collection of bits of text, mostly in Persian with some Arabic, accompanied by extensive comments.
- Date: 18??
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Book/Printed MaterialTārīkh-i ḥukamā-yi mutaqaddimīn az hubūṭ-i Ḥaz̤rat Ādam tā bi-vujūd-i āmadan-i Ḥaz̤rat ʻĪsá
تاريخ حکماى متقدمين از هبوط حضرت آدم تا بوجود آمدن حضرت عيسى / Short biographical sketches of philosophers, B.C.- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif. Riyāsat-I Dār Al-Tāʼlīf. - Kātib Hazārah, Fayz̤ Muḥammad
- Date: 1923
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Book/Printed MaterialMāyah-ʼi Dānish-i ʻAlāʼī mashhūr bi-Ḥikmat al-ʻAlāy
مايۀ دانش علائى مشهور بحکمة العلاي / | Ḥikmat al-ʻAlāʼī | Ḥikmat al-ʻAlāyī Lithographed. In Persian.- Contributor: Asad Allāh, Sayyid - Avicenna
- Date: 1891
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Book/Printed MaterialMiṣdāq al-raml
مصداق الرمل / | Miṣdāq al-ramal Treatise on geomancy, the science of foretelling the future from lines and diagrams drawn on the ground.- Contributor: Lāhūrī, Muḥammad ʻaṭā Rammāl
- Date: 1886
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Book/Printed MaterialAnvār al-raml.
انوار الرمل. Lithographed. In Persian.- Contributor: Shīrvānī, ʻabd Al-Ghanī
- Date: 1881
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb-i akhlāq-i muḥsinī.
كتاب اخلاق محسني. Treatis on Islamic ethics and religious life.- Contributor: Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
- Date: 17??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialKitāb-i akhlāq al-muḥsinī.
كتاب اخلاق المحسني. Text on fundamentals of Islamic ethics.- Contributor: Munro, Thomas - Kāshifī, Ḥusayn Vāʻiẓ
- Date: 1807
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Book/Printed MaterialẒuhūr al-amān
ظهور الامان / Ẓuhūr al-amān (The advent of security) is a book on civics published during the reign of Ammanullah Khan (1919-29) as amir of Afghanistan. The book's title pays homage to the name of Ammanullah Khan himself. In its treatment of the duties of the members of Afghan society to the ruler and to each other, Ẓuhūr al-amān appears to highlight the challenges faced by Ammanullah...- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif - Taqṣīr, ʻabd Al-Ḥaqq
- Date: 1923
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialAkhlāq-i Nāṣirī.
اخلاق ناصرى. Ethical work by Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī.- Contributor: Munro, Thomas - Ṭūsī, Naṣīr Al-Dīn Muḥammad Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 17??
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Qurʼān]. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by "Ibn ʻAlī". Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Text proceeded by 2 lithographed fragments pasted front and back; the second one, facing first page of manuscript, is lithograph of Sūrat al-fātiḥah from unidentified edition of the Qurʼān....
- Date: 1695
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Qurʼān]. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by Aḥmad al-Nayrīzī. Written in Iran. Paper; thin, cream color polished paper with no watermarks; elaborate floral unwan in gold, black, blue and red; fol. 1b and 2a have gold floral design in borders; in remainder of the work, the text is enclosed in an elaborate ruled border of blue, gold, red and blue; the...
- Contributor: Nayrīzī, Aḥmad
- Date: 1708
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Qurʼān]. Manuscript. Arabic. Title suppllied by cataloger. Written by Muṣṭafá al-Khaṭīb in the Sulṭanīyah mosque. Written in Iran. Paper; polished, cream color laid paper with horizontal chain lines and no visible watermarks; elaborate decoration on fol. 1b and 2a in gold, dark blue, red, and light blue; remainder of text enclosed in wide ruled border of gold and black; individual sūrah's have titles in white...
- Date: 1739
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Qurʼān]
[قرأن] | [قرآن] This 19th-century manuscript Qurʼan is in a Nashki script with diacritical marks in black. Nashki was the calligraphic style used for the most beautiful Qurʼans of the period, because of its small size and great delicacy. The first two pages are elaborately illuminated in green, blue, and red on a gold background. The titles of the surahs (chapters) are in gold. The borders are...- Contributor: Ṣāfī, Aḥmad Rashīd - McVicker, Charles C. - Balawī, Ibrāhīm Adʹham Gharbaldah
- Date: 18??
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialQurʼān bā tarjumah-i Fārsī. Manuscript. Arabic and Persian; colophon in Turkish (Arabic script). Title from container. Scribe not identified. Probably written in Iran. Paper; cream color paper with no visible watermarks; elaborate unwans on fol. 1b and 2a with text enclosed in a wide ruled border of gold red and green; remainder of text enclosed in ruled border in gold black and red; interlinear Persian translation in red...
- Date: 1877
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialSūrat al-Qāf.
سورة القاف. | SURAT / AL / AHQĀF Sūrat al-Ahqāf with interlinear Persian translation.- Date: 17??
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Book/Printed MaterialRisālah hāz̲ā musammā bi-Kashf al-asrār : baʻz̤ muhimmāt-i z̤arūrī-i Qurʼān-i ʻaẓīm al-shān
رساله هذا مسما بکشف الاسرار : بعض مهمات ضرورى قرأن عظيم الشان / | Risālah-ʼi Kashf al-asrār | Bi-Kashf al-asrār | Kashf al-asrār | رساله هذا مسما بکشف الاسرار : بعض مهمات ضرورى قرآن عظيم الشان / Commentary and explanation of some Qurʼānic verses. Kashf al-asrār (The unveiling of mysteries) is a book of Qur'anic commentary dating from the early 20th century. The author, Shir Ahmad, was from Kabul, Afghanistan. In the Kashf al-asrār, Shir Ahmad makes repeated reference to an earlier and more comprehensive commentary but states that, because of the great bulk of the earlier work, he was forced...- Contributor: Aḥmad, Shīr
- Date: 1910
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialRisālah fī al-tajwīd bi-al-lughah al-Fārisīyah li-Muḥammad al-Bāqir.
رسالة في التجويد باللغة الفارسية لمحمد الباقر. Treatise on the art of reciting the Qurʼan.- Contributor: Manṣūrī, Maḥmūd Al-Imām - Asmāʼī, Muḥammad Al-Bāqir Ibn Muḥammad
- Date: 18??
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Book/Printed MaterialKilīd-i tajvīd : yādgār-i Imām Sajāvandī Lahūkardī az yak vaṭandārash : barā-yi muʻallimān-i ibtidāʼīyah va mutaʻallimān-i rushdīyah.
کليد تجويد : يادگار امام سجاوندى لهوکردى از يک وطندارش : براى معلمان ابتدائيه و متعلمان رشديه. On recitation and reading of the Qurʼān. This work is an introduction to the rules of pronunciation during the recitation of the Qur'an. It was written for students at the elementary and intermediate levels in Afghanistan. In the preface the author states that in teaching the rules of proper pronunciation, the focus should be on skills that young Persian- or Pushto-speaking students have not...- Contributor: Afghanistan. Vizārat-I Maʻārif - Sayf Al-Raḥmān.
- Date: 1921
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Book/Printed MaterialFatḥ al-aqfāl al-musammá bih Tuḥfat al-aṭfāl
فتح الاقفال المسمى به تحفة الاطفال / | Tuḥfat al-aṭfāl On how to read and recite the Qurʹān.- Contributor: Jamzūrī, Sulaymān Ibn Ḥusayn - Nīk Muḥammad
- Date: 1871
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Book/Printed MaterialZubdat al-tajwīd
زبدة التجويد / | Zubdat al-tajvīd Lithographed. In Persian.- Contributor: Afghānī, ʻabd Al-Khāliq Khān. - Nīk Muḥammad
- Date: 1904
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Book/Printed MaterialRisālah-ʼi Puṣhto, It̤āʻat-i ūlʹa al-amr Risālah-i Puṣhto It̤āʻat-i ūlā al-amr (On the obedience of the ruler in Pashto) is a tract meant to encourage obedience to the ruler of Afghanistan. The expression ūlā al-amr refers to one who is foremost in authority, and the title of the book references a Qur'anic verse (5:59), "Oh Believers! Obey the Lord and the Prophet and those who are foremost in authority amongst...
- Contributor: Khān, ʻabd Al-Rabb
- Date: 1915
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialHāz̲ā al-kitāb al-mustaṭāb al-musammá bih Khvān-i yaghmā
هذا الکتاب المستطاب المسمى به خوان يغما / | Khvān-i yaghmā Manuscript. Persian Caption title. Scribe not identified. Gift of Cyrus Ebrahim Zadeh, Nov. 9, 2009. Written in Iran? Paper: yellowish, polished cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink, with rubrication and overlining in red; catchwords. Nastaʻliq; 15 lines in written area 13 x 6 cm. 1b-104a. Library of Congress. Manuscript, M306. Binding: brown leather frame and spine with embossed edges and...- Contributor: Muḥammad Raḥīm Khān
- Date: 18??
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Book/Printed MaterialLillāh al-ḥamd va-al-minnah kih nuskhah-ʼi mutabarrikah al-mawsūm bi-Tuḥfat al-ʻulamāʼ
لله الحمد والمنه که نسخۀ متبرکه الموسوم بتحفة العلماء / Tuḥfat al-ʻulamā' (An offering for religious scholars) is ostensibly a tract addressed to the ʻulamā' (religious scholars) of Afghanistan, asking them to actively discourage the suspicion held by their followers toward things foreign. It was written by order of the Afghan ruler Sher Ali Khan (reigned 1863-66 and 1868-79). Little is known of the author, ʻAbd al-Qadir Khan, although he is identified as a...- Contributor: Khān, ʻabd Al-Qādir
- Date: 1875
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Manuscript/Mixed Material[Anonymous Islamic treatise on creation in Persian] Manuscript. Persian. Title supplied by cataloger. Written by Mīrzā Muḥammad Shīrāzī. Gift of Amir Jafar and Parvindokt Hasheminejad, donated by their son, Mehdi Hasheminejad, item belonged to Amir Jafar Hasheminejad's collection and originated from Qajar era minister, Mehdi Lahooti, Badaye Negar's holdings. May 31, 2019. Written in Iran. Paper; polished, cream color commercial paper with no visible watermarks; black ink with rubrication; catchwords. Naskh;...
- Date: 1877
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